Machine for lettering the covers of books



(No Model.)

W. J. FOSTER.

MACHINE FOR LETTERING THE COVERS OF BOOKS.

No. 404,189. Patented May 28 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM J. FOSTER, OF HOBOKEN, NEWV JERSEY.

MACHINE FOR LETTERING THE COVERS OF BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,189, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed April 27, 1888. Serial No. 27 2,006. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. FosrEE, of Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Lettering the Sides of Book-Covers, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe in detail a machine for lettering the sides of book-covers embodying my invention, and then point out the novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a central vertical section thereof at right angles to Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of a platen and chase for type employed in the machine, looking upwardly.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

A designates the base of the machine, and B the frame thereof. This frame is shown as comprising two upright portions, to, and a cross upper portion, a, extending between the portions to.

O designates a chase-holder. This chase holder, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3, consists of an approximately fiat plate provided with slideways b, which slideways intersect each other at right angles across the face of the chase-holder. The side edges of the slideways I) are provided yvith V-ways b, which V-ways'are adapted to receive the corresponding edges of a chase, D, for holding type. The chase D may move freely into and out of the slideways b. I have shown a handle, 6 on the chase to facilitate inserting and removing it. The V -ways for receiving the chase may be formed in the metal composing the chase-holder; but I prefer to form the same by means of rectangular plates b secured, as here shown, by screws to the under side of the chase-holder at the corners of the latter.

In the chase D may be arranged type in the usual or any desired manner. The chase having been arranged in the desired position on the chase-holder, may be secured in such position by means of set-screws 0, extending through the chaseholder from the upper side thereof.

The chase-holder is supported upon and moved upwardly and downwardly by a screw, F. The screw F has a loose connection with the chase-holder at its lower end, whereby it may rotate freely without causing the rotation of the chase-holder. The screw has asuitable bearing in the portion a of the frame B.

In order to secure an accurate print from the type, I employ guides for the platen, to guide it in its up an d down movements. Such guides consist of rods f, rigidly secured at their upper ends in the portion a of the frame, and terminate at their lower ends ata considerable distance above the base A of the machine.

Extending from the upper side of the chaseholder are arms g, which arms have formed with them loops g. The rods f extend loosely through the loops g. By making the guide rods f of such length only that there is a considerable space left between their lower ends and the base A, I am enabled to readily insert and remove a book of any thickness to be printed upon. I have shown a book, G, ar-

ranged in position to receive an imprint from By constructing the chase-holder in the manner described-tl1at is to say, with intersecting slideways for receiving the chase for the type-I am enabled, by simply putting in the chase from the front or from the side, to print upon a book either crosswise of the cover or lengthwise thereof, as desired, without regard to the direction in which the type is set in the chase; hence I may always set the type in the chase in the most convenient way, without regard to the direction in which the lettering is to run on the cover, and I can place the book in the press either endwise or sidewise, as may be most convenient.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for lettering the sides of the covers of books, the combination, with a base, of a frame, a chase-holder, a screw journaled in the frame and having a loose connection with the chase-holder, and vertically-extending guide-rods secured near one of their der side extending at approximately right 10 ends to the frame and terminating at their angles to each other, of a chase adapted to be other ends at a considerable distance above inserted in either of said slideways, substanthe base, said guide-rods having a loose contially as specified. 5 neotion with the chase-holder, substantiall 1 i as specified Y I WILLIAM J. FosiER.

2. In a machine for lettering the sides of 1 WVitnesses: book-covers, the combination, with a chase- FREDK. HAYNES, holder provided with slideways upon its 1111- HENRY J. MCBRIDE. 

